The Ministry of Finance announced the total amount of market interventions implemented this month, and in order to stop the rapid depreciation of the yen, the funds used for the intervention to sell the dollar and buy the yen reached a record high of 2.8382 trillion yen. .
It turned out that the market intervention of selling the dollar and buying the yen that the government and the Bank of Japan implemented for the first time in 24 years on the 22nd of last week was an exceptional scale.
Immediately after the market intervention on this day, the yen exchange rate fluctuated by more than 5 yen and rose to the low 140 yen level to the dollar. .